Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Me: What sort of medical history do you have?Man: I have high blood pressure but I haven't taken my pills for a few days. I ran out.(Man's blood pressure is 192/113)Me: What other history do you have?Man: I have high cholesterol. Me: And what do you take for that?Man: Well I used to take statins but I stopped taking them a few months ago because I didn't like all of the negative publicity around them.Me: (pause) Oh-kay. And what about all the negative publicity around heart attacks? Have you ever seen or heard any of that?Man: Yeah I guess so.

Guess my lecture was too late. The man was having a huge heart attack. Practically preventable had he been taking his cholesterol pills.